Fix issue #4471: path termination for irregular series.

[rosco54]

Fixes #4471

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

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• I have performed a self-review of my own code
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• My changes generate no new warnings
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes